Docker Job Trends in South Wales

Docker
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 23 48
Rank change year-on-year -18 +25 -8
Permanent jobs citing Docker 19 56 27
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 2.68% 6.26% 4.15%
As % of the System Software category 30.16% 52.83% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 18 55 23
10th Percentile £47,173 - £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £23,750 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £32,500 £57,165
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -43.15% +0.18%
75th Percentile £72,425 £56,833 £68,497
90th Percentile £78,790 £65,000 £71,699
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £32,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +84.62% -35.00% -12.38%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 63 106 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 8.90% 11.84% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 54 77 62
10th Percentile £28,600 £23,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,415 £27,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,816 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.74% -35.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £73,625
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £34,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +54.41% -24.44% -10.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Docker job vacancy trend in South Wales

Docker
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in South Wales over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -3 13 £62,500 +92.31% 7
Bridgend - 5 £57,500 - 2
Neath Port Talbot - 1 £60,000 -
Docker
Wales

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (21.05%) IIS
3 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) AWS
2 12 (63.16%) Azure
3 10 (52.63%) GitHub
4 8 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (42.11%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (26.32%) Serverless
6 4 (21.05%) dbt
6 4 (21.05%) GCP
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
7 3 (15.79%) PaaS
7 3 (15.79%) Pulumi
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (10.53%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.79%) Redis
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (21.05%) TeamCity
3 3 (15.79%) Git
4 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.26%) git-flow
5 1 (5.26%) JMeter
5 1 (5.26%) Locust
5 1 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Site Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) Django
3 2 (10.53%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.26%) Jest
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) Keras
4 1 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (5.26%) NumPy
4 1 (5.26%) Pandas
4 1 (5.26%) Playwright
4 1 (5.26%) PySpark
4 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.26%) React
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
4 1 (5.26%) Web Services
4 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Unix
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) CI/CD
2 17 (89.47%) DevOps
3 11 (57.89%) Containerisation
4 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (31.58%) Observability
7 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
7 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (26.32%) Software Delivery
8 4 (21.05%) CRM
8 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
9 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
9 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (15.79%) Prototyping
9 3 (15.79%) Service-Level Objective
9 3 (15.79%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) Bash
5 2 (10.53%) C#
6 1 (5.26%) C
6 1 (5.26%) C++
6 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) Terraform
2 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (21.05%) Ansible
3 4 (21.05%) Grafana
4 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (5.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Pega
2 4 (21.05%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) Google
3 3 (15.79%) Guidewire
3 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks